How the Z-Wave Alliance is building IoT device standards – TechRepublic
Mitchell Klein: Yeah. Z-Wave is actually the dominant platform for the smart home devices. That’s really where our focus had been for the last 15 years. You’re seeing it in door locks, thermostats, security panels, sensors, lighting devices. The natural extension is to move it over into the office, but I’ll get to that in a second.
We currently have over 700 member companies that are actually developing, reselling, installing, maintaining and are in some way involved with the Z-Wave Alliance. Excuse me. What makes it unique, in terms of all the competing platforms out there, is a mandate for interoperability. If you develop with Z-Wave, whatever that device happens to be, even just talking about a dimmer or a sensor, you must go through a certification process that ensures that at the application layer, it’s interoperable with all the other devices.